The Needle Britain 1959 Good girl Gina is doing well in college. She wants to fully experience life. But alas she falls for the “wrong guy”. Beatnik/Hippie wannabe Bob catches her eye. He lives fast and hangs with some quest...

The Atomic Bomb and the Word of God
Smith
1945
This piece of cold war ephemera was published within months of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Smith, a faculty member of Moody Bible Institute and Fuller Theological Seminary, was...

Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Harassment
Bouchard
1990, 1997
Submitter: Apparently, judging from the cover and pictures included in this Sexual Harassment book, this is a How-To manual.
Holly: It doesn’t even matter whic...

Make it in Denim
Todhunter
1977
Wow! That is a lot of look. If it is all denim, that has to be a very heavy caftan. I remember that caftans were big in the late 60s and 70s. I think it was probably fading by 1977. My grandmother always...

Submitter: We are an academic library in a non-North American country where English is an official language. There are some Francophone countries in the region but they are about 750 miles away from us. You can take French as a foreign l...

Martha’s New Daddy
Steel
1989
This little gem is from my collection. (I had no idea Ms. Steel wrote a children’s book, either.) Our little girl Martha is the child of divorce and now Mom has announced her intentions to marry ...

Michael and the Dentist
Wolf
1980
Submitter: This book was weeded from an elementary school library because it does not give a child in the year 2013 an accurate picture of what it’s like to visit the dentist. The equipment looks d...

Build your Own Hot Tub
Miller
1979
Submitter: In actuality a fairly well done how-to book; the cover alone demands submission. You just KNOW that there are no bathing suits in evidence there – and is that Paul Simon third from the left?...